dependency theory

English

Noun

dependency theory (countable and uncountable, plural dependency theories)

  1. (economics, political science) A set of ideas to explain the inequalities between developed countries and developing countries, originally conceived in the context of Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, stressing the interdependence of those countries in a capitalist global economy.
    • 2010, Mark Bevir, editor, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, A–E, SAGE, →ISBN, page 370:
      Dependency theory is a body of ideas about the role of developing countries within the global economic system, about the nature of development, and about patterns of unequal power. It dominated much Latin American social science (including the analysis of the region's international role) in the 1960s and 1970s.
  2. (databases) A subfield of database theory which studies implication and optimization problems related to logical constraints.

Derived terms

  • dependency theorist

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See also

  • modernization theory

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